This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 19, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama’s so-called Jobs Plan has nothing to do with jobs and economics. On that score, it is already a proven failure. Rather, the plan is pure politics: a ploy to make Republicans bear the responsibility for the President’s economic fiasco, with proven to fail policies he knows the Republicans were elected to stop and can’t support. The political calculation is that the public is too stupid to figure out both the economic fallacies in the […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 17, 2011 in The Washington Times.

How does paying people not to work constitute a key element of a “jobs bill”? President Obama’s goofy, gimmicky American Jobs Act, which even the Harry Reid-led Senate rejected Wednesday and the adult-led House regards with head-shaking bemusement, would throw another $447 billion “stimulus” at the economy and extend unemployment benefits for another year.

Pass it now. Pass it now. It worked so well last time.

The answer to the question above is that it makes perfect sense within Mr. Obama’s worldview that […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 13, 2011 on Forbes.com.

A new consensus is emerging among Republicans for fundamental entitlement reform providing for modern, 21st century social safety nets. The new, reformed programs would actually achieve all of the social welfare goals of the current programs far more effectively, ultimately serving seniors and the poor far better. But because they would centrally rely on modern capital, labor and insurance markets, with a minimum of old fashioned tax and redistribution, they would achieve these goals […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 12, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

On September 12, the pioneering Rep. Thaddeus McCotter introduced trailblazing legislation providing workers the freedom to choose personal savings and investment accounts to finance half of their future Social Security benefits. This legislation would completely solve the future Social Security financing problem, without cutting benefits or raising taxes, as officially scored by the Chief Actuary of Social Security.

Indeed, because standard, long-term market investment returns are so much higher than what Social Security even promises, […]

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 12, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Years ago it was easy to be a racist. All you had to be was a white person using some of the racial epithets that are routinely used in song and everyday speech by many of today’s blacks. Or you had to chant “two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to integrate” when a black student showed up for admission to your high school or college. Of course, there was that dressing up in a hooded white gown. In any […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 6, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Republicans are in disarray over Social Security. Mitt Romney wants to hide safely within the establishment status quo that is not working. Rick Perry understands the problem, but has yet to offer a workable solution. In path-breaking legislation introduced Sept. 12, the pioneering Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) has now provided that solution, which reflects the full detail provided in my recent book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb. McCotter is providing Republicans and the nation with rare creative […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Last week, Newt Gingrich released his 21st Century Contract with America, composed of 10 specific legislative proposals he would enact if elected President. In the 1994 Congressional campaigns, Republicans not only rode Newt’s Contract with America proposals to Republican majorities in Congress. They maintained their House majority for 12 years, after Republicans had only held a House majority for 2 of the previous 74 years.

Newt’s 21st century contract is similarly […]

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 5, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Politicians who are principled enough to point out the fraud of Social Security, referring to it as a lie and Ponzi scheme, are under siege. Acknowledgment of Social Security’s problems is not the same as calling for the abandonment of its recipients. Instead, it’s a call to take actions now, while there’s time to avert a disaster. Let’s look at it.

The term was derived from the scheme created during the 1920s by Charles Ponzi, a poor but enterprising […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 4, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Can private parties sue to enforce a federal statute when Congress does not say so? That’s what the Supreme Court is deciding in a case heard on the opening day of its current term.

The court’s first case this term involves Medicaid. The justices considered if Medicaid recipients can sue when a state cuts Medicaid payments, or instead if that is a matter left to federal and state governments to sort out.

The case is actually three consolidated cases from various Medicaid recipients in California, […]